USING YOUR MATH 5. Of the 56 blueberries that Jono picked, two-sevenths of them weren't ripe. Fill in the tape diagram below and determine how many of the blueberries weren't ripe.?​

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To determine how many blueberries were not ripe, we need to find two-sevenths of 56.

We can set up a tape diagram to represent the 56 blueberries.

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The 'R' represents the part that is not ripe. Since two-sevenths of the blueberries are not ripe, we can divide the tape diagram into seven equal parts and shade in two parts.

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| R R |
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|_____R_____|

Counting the shaded sections, we see that there are 2 shaded sections representing the blueberries that were not ripe. Therefore, 2 out of the 56 blueberries were not ripe.